It’s easy to imagine legendary pitching ace Fernando Valenzuela watching over his beloved Dodgers on what would have been his 64th birthday, and throwing in some left-handed divine intervention in the team’s hard-fought, back-to-back title win on Nov. 1 .

It sure felt like it for the fans and friends that packed Valenzuela’s favorite booth at Max’s Mexican restaurant in Monrovia on Saturday.

“He loved and admired his Dodgers. He would always root and travel with them as part of his continued career with the organization. He would say, ‘Que les vaya bien,’ all will be well,” said friend Ulises Gutierrez.

Photos of No. 34 Fernando Valenzuela are decorated with marigolds at the booth the Dodgers great often sat in at Max’s Mexican Cuisine in Monrovia. The mural was commissioned after h

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